I'm interested in the idea of a de-sublimated ruin. That is a ruin whose scale and time span are not beyond the human, but intimately connected. In relation to this I adopt decollage strategies of tearing and scraping from surfaces formed of appropriated material. My understanding is that this autographic process of subtraction enables significations to wander - amongst a discourse with painterly abstraction, and the ideas engendered by the ruinous state of the original material.